Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Consequences ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

Wufei stared around the house. It was dark and depressing. He caught sight of Kreacher standing in a corner sneering at him. While his first reaction was annoyance he almost immediately asked in a rather loud voice "What is that!?" pointing at the house elf. Everyone turned to look at the creature which stared back insolently.

"Kreacher. House elf. Slave bound to family" Heero muttered giving the impression he was talking to himself.

Apparently this was normal as none of the pilots seemed alarmed and Duo asked tentatively "Is it supposed to look like that? Was it dropped on its head as a baby?"

"They all look like that. There is a collection of their heads in the hallway." answered Trowa in a monotone.

"Ewww" Duo answered while Quatre and Wufei shot horrified looks at Trowa.

Clearing his throat Quatre said "Well, my sister Sameera had her dog stuffed when it died. It looks very lifelike." Everyone stared at him. That was not the expected response.

"You know if this Mr. Dumbledore is going to be long can I go get some files from Une's cupboards? I'd like to see my psych report" asked Duo.

Sirius waved his hand in a way of giving permission for moving around his house wondering inwardly at `Mr. Dumbledore'. Grinning, Duo left and was back in a few minutes with an armload of files. Dumping them on the table, he sorted them into five piles and passed one to each of the pilots. Peering across the table Mr. Weasley caught a glimpse of charts and paragraphs.

The door bell rang quietly and Sirius hurried out to open it. Dumbledore strode into the room followed closely by Mundungus, Myers and Sirius. He cast a sweeping look at the newcomers and then sighing heavily took the seat Sirius had vacated.

"This was my main concern."

Looking at the pilots across the table he continued

"I'm sorry the portal did not open the other way round. I'm afraid it was due to certain changes in the configuration of the stars which I had not taken into account previously."

"Ok" interrupted Quatre "However now that you have all the details when will you be able to send us back?"

"I have no idea" Dumbledore said conclusively.

Heero's eyes widened imperceptibly, Trowa remained impassive, Duo and Wufei's mouths fell open and Quatre frowned.

"What are we supposed to do? This is something you did and now is our problem. You fix it," Duo cried out suddenly.

Looking at him calmly Dumbledore answered "You are young. Teenagers, infact. And you are all untrained wizards. Until you are sent back into the world, you will go to Hogwarts."

He smiled benevolently.

"What is `Hogwarts'?" came Wufei's rather cracked voice.

"It is a school for witches and wizards" came Tonks's cheerful reply.

Clearly all the wizards thought this a wise course of actions.

Clearly Duo did not think so.

In a rather high pitched voice he yelled "SCHOOL! I have to go to school? But why? I never went to school back in my world! This is so unfair! Finally I get a job I can do, pay is good and now I have to go to school! God hates me-"

Cutting in through the rants Quatre asked politely said "May I remind you that we have none of our monetary assets here and we have entire lives back in our world."

"Well due to the circumstances of your presence here the expenses of your -hm- stay here will be taken care of. You don't need to worry about that. You can stay here if it is alright with Sirius" Dumbledore said raising his voice to be heard over Duo's shouts.

Sirius nodded signaling his acceptance at the idea. Duo's voice was abruptly switched off by Wufei stuffing his braid into his mouth.

"It will take some time for you to learn the basics. You will stay here and study the portions till fifth year then you will join the other students of Hogwarts after Christmas break. During the time period of your staying here and attending Hogwarts you can study the necessary portions." He seemed pretty confident that the gundam boys would be able to catch up four years portions in a few months.

With the exception of Duo, everyone took the news fairly well.

Nodding, Quatre resumed interrogation in a deceptively harmless voice milking his experience at WEI for all it was worth "So we'll go to school. What will be the subjects and portions which cannot be studied from text will be taught by-?"

"Transfiguration by Prof. McGonagall, Defense against Dark Arts by Lupin, Charms by Sirius, Potions by Prof. Snape and we'll take care of the rest later."

After this announcement, silence fell like a heavy blanket on the room. It seemed after this decision, it finally sank into everyone that they were going to stay here. Trying to break the unease that fell in the room, Mrs. Weasley rose from her seat brightly stated she would make early dinner and left.

In the back of Duo's mind it registered that they would be having lunch back in his world. He thought of what he'd left behind. Admittedly, there were few possessions that he truly cherished, like Deathschythe, but he realized what little he left behind, those things were his. He had bought them or found them or that they were given to him. He wondered inwardly if anyone would notice he'd disappeared. Shaking of the depression that was threatening to engulf his mind, Duo smiled broadly pilling on his joker's mask and pulling it off perfectly. "So now we are staying here, where do we crash in this place?"

He received several rather alarmed stares and was answered by Sirius "I'll show where you'll sleep later. Molly will bring around textbooks for your studying tomorrow."

Apparently trying to calm everyone and to bring back a sense of peace in the room Myers hesitantly and good-naturedly spoke up "You know," he started "When these two arrived here" he nodded towards Heero and Trowa "Yuy put one of those metal pellets from his firearm through my wand. Had to get it replaced." He finished his little piece of information with a small smile.

Wufei smiled morbidly and answered "You must consider yourself lucky that Yuy had had a good day and that was probably that stopped him from pumping that bullet between your eyes."

Quatre rubbed his forehead tiredly, Trowa and Heero looked on impassively and Duo seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. Myers frowned slightly. He seemed to be contemplating what Wufei meant or if he meant what he thought he did.

Dumbledore came out of his thoughts. He looked at the pilots and quietly said "I apologize for the inconvenience we have caused you and for disrupting your lives." He stopped there for lack of words to say.

Soft whispers of "It is alright", "Fine , apology accepted" and three solemn nods greeted his words.

Realizing that all the events of the day had finally come to a conclusion that they did not like but had to accept, those wizards who had to leave left .The ones left were Sirius, Lupin, Charlie and Mr. Weasley and soft whispers of Kreacher's malevolent words reverberated eerily around the room.

T.B.C

Sorry it is short and it took so long.

Harry Potter and freinds will turn up in the next chapter.

Length of next chapter and the date I release it will depend on number of Reviews.

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